κράβαττος

κράβαττος, ου, ὁ (mss. and edd. also κράβατος, κράββατος, κρέβαττος [Mk 2:3 v.l.]; a loanw., found also in rabb., but of uncertain origin and late in appearing [Phryn. 62 Lob.]. Acc. to Pollux 10, 35 in the form κράββατος in the comic poets Rhinto [III B.C.] and Crito [II B.C.]; so also TestJob [ms. P, κράβαττ-SV]; also Epict 1, 24, 14; Aesop, Fab. 413 H.; PLond II, 191, 16 p. 265 [II A.D.] κράββατος. Ostracon in Mélanges Nicole 1905 p. 184=Sb 4292, 9 and Moeris p. 58; 354 κράβατος. The form κράβακτος also occurs: PTebt 406, 19.—Am 3:12 Aq. On the form of the word s. B-D-F §42, 4; W-S. §5, 26a n.; Mlt. 244; Mlt-H. 102 [§41d]; Rob. 119; 213) mattress, pallet, the poor man’s bed Mk 2:4; 6:55. W. κλινάριον Ac 5:15. αἴρειν τὸν κ. Mk 2:9, 11f; J 5:8–11, 12 v.l. (cp. Lucian, Philopseud. 11 ὁ Μίδας αὐτὸς ἀράμενος τὸν σκίμποδα, ἐφʼ οὗ ἐκεκόμιστο, ᾤχετο ἐς τὸν ἀγρὸν ἀπιών ‘Midas himself took up the pallet on which he had been carried, made his departure, and went back to the field [i.e. to his task of viticulture]’). κατακεῖσθαι ἐπὶ κραβάττου lie in bed Ac 9:33. JKramer, APF 41/2, ’95.—DELG. M-M.